Fukushima is launching an experimental app to see if gamifying housework will help close the chore gap in Japanese households ...

The new national legal requirement doesn't carry any direct fines, and customers face no potential punishment for crossing ...

Soni, a tiny village on the Nara-Mie border, has a tourism problem that doesn’t fit the usual overtourism story. To start, the village has about 1,200 residents. Last year, roughly 380,000 people ...

Just as the government is adding Japanese-language requirements to certain visas, the twice-yearly JLPTs are getting ...

Does Japan REALLY welcome its new robot overlords? A deep dive into what Japan currently thinks about AI usage.

Japan has four main islands: Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu. Tourists flock to three of them. Shikoku, the smallest, remains stubbornly off the radar, and that’s exactly what makes it worth the ...

Anime pilgrimage, known in Japanese as seichi junrei (聖地巡礼), has become a major force in anime-related tourism in Japan over the past decade. For years, anime fans have visited real-world locations ...

Long before Mario jumped his first barrel, and a century before Pokémon fit in a pocket, Nintendo was already a household name in Japan. But let’s be clear: their customers weren’t kids, and they ...

Idol culture remains a big part of Japanese pop culture. A high school in Nagano Prefecture is taking that a step further with its announcement that it’ll emulate a popular anime series with its new ...

When people talk about religion and politics in Japan, they often call the country “secular” or even “atheist.” Surveys back this up. Around 70 percent of Japanese people describe themselves as ...

There’s no denying that “2.5 D Musicals” have taken the stage-bound world by storm over recent years here in Japan. There’s an entire industry set on turning out musicals based on the animated likes ...